Pushing on a String
Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds (New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century)
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deciding to change an infrastructure already built takes immense social effort.
The Worldwatch Institute • State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible?
Solar energy has fluctuated from zero to a peak of 46GW, but the variation is even more dramatic as a % of total energy production: from zero to more than 50% of the total .
How to deal with this huge fluctuation in production? What will happen if that fluctuation increases even more, following plans for additional wind and solar parks?
There are a n
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Strengthening and clarifying market signals, such as full-cost accounting, don’t get far these days, because of the weakening of another set of balancing feedback loops—those of democracy. This great system was invented to put self-correcting feedback between the people and their government. The people, informed about what their elected representat
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